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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 81
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Israel commanded to sing praises to the Lord—If Israel had walked in the Lord’s ways they would have triumphed over their enemies.
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<center><span class='small'>TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON GITTITH, A PSALM OF ASAPH.</span></center>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
Sing</span> aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
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Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Blow up the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/81/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 23: 24; Num. 10: 10.">trumpet</a> in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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For this <i>was</i> a statute for Israel, <i>and</i> a law of the God of Jacob.
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This he ordained in Joseph <i>for</i> a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: <i>where</i> I heard a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/81/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Language.">language</a> <i>that</i> I understood not.
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I removed his shoulder from the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/81/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 1: 11; Ex. 6: 6 (6-7); Mosiah 24: 21 (14-21); D&C 109: 48 (47-48).">burden</a>: his hands were delivered from the pots.
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Thou calledst in <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/81/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 50: 15; Alma 9: 17; Alma 38: 5; D&C 3: 8.">trouble</a>, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/81/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 19: 18 (18-19).">place</a> of thunder: I <sup>c</sup><a href="ps/81/7c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB tested.">proved</a> thee at the waters of <sup>d</sup><a href="ps/81/7d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ex. 17: 7 (6-7).">Meribah</a>.  Selah.
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Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
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&nbsp;&nbsp;9 
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;10 
I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
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So I <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/81/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 7: 42; Rom. 1: 28.">gave</a> them up unto their own hearts’ <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/81/12b" mark="b" type="R" title="HEB stubbornness; TG Lust.">lust</a>: <i>and</i> they walked in their own counsels.
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Oh that my people had <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/81/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 29.">hearkened</a> unto me, <i>and</i> Israel had walked in my ways!
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I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
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The haters of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> should have <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/81/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Submissiveness.">submitted</a> themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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